expedition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 远征, 探险(队) , 考察(队)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel went through this programme of the expedition without so much as a glance at the map.
-- "And how is the expedition to be organized?"
-- The sailors were all so eager to join the expedition that Glenarvan found the only way to prevent jealousy among them was to draw lots who should go.
-- Lord Glenarvan had taken care that the ill-success of their expedition should not throw a gloom over the pleasure of meeting, his very first words being:"Cheer up, friends, cheer up!Captain Grant is not with us, but we have a certainty of finding him!"
-- "After breakfast, John," replied Glenarvan, "we'll discuss the program of our new expedition en famille."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, all these rooms are unfur-nished and unoccupied, so that his expedition became more mysterious than ever.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Lebedeff returned, in company with the general, after their expedition to town a few days since, for the pur-pose of investigation, he brought the prince no information whatever.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An Indian never starts on such an expedition without smoking over his council-fire; and, though a man of white blood, I honor their customs in this particular, seeing that they are deliberate and wise.
-- He only knew that they had not engaged in the late expedition against William Henry; that, like the Hurons themselves they were allies of Montcalm; and that they maintained an amicable, though a watchful intercourse with the warlike and savage people whom chance had, for a time, brought in such close and dis-agreeable contact with themselves.
-- The war-riors had reassembled, and were now calmly smoking, while they conversed gravely on the chief incidents of their recent expedition to the head of the Horican.
-- After which, he spoke of the expedition in which he was himself engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative a portion of that wisdom for which they were so re-nowned.
-- In short, the manifestations of zeal and fierce delight were so great and unequivocal, that the expedition was declared to be a war of the nation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our readers will recollect what befell these five daring individuals who set out on their hazardous expedition in the balloon on the 20th of March.
-- The particular object of their expedition was, as has been said, to procure the greatest possible quantity of game for the inhabitants of the Chimneys.
-- When the fine season came round again, they would regularly hunt those musmons which had been seen on the expedition to Mount Franklin, and the wool once collected, the engineer would know how to make it into strong warm stuff.... How?
-- Neb bewailed himself, much disappointed at not being able to get into his kitchen, for the provisions which they had had on their expedition were exhausted, and they had no means of renewing them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She started from her bed without delay, and roused the old man with so much expedition that they were both ready as soon as Short himself, to that gentleman's unspeakable gratification and relief.
-- The reply which the stout lady did not come to, until she had thoroughly explained that she went to the races on the first day in a gig, and as an expedition of pleasure, and that her presence there had no connexion with any matters of business or profit was, that the town was eight miles off.
-- The proposed expedition being one of paramount importance, Mrs Jarley adjusted Nell's bonnet with her own hands, and declaring that she certainly did look very pretty, and reflected credit on the establishment, dismissed her with many commendations, and certain needful directions as to the turnings on the right which she was to take, and the turnings on the left which she was to avoid.
-- Whenever Kit came alone, and without the chaise, it always happened that Sampson Brass was reminded of some mission, calling Mr Swiveller, if not to Peckham Rye again, at all events to some pretty distant place from which he could not be expected to return for two or three hours, or in all probability a much longer period, as that gentleman was not, to say the truth, renowned for using great expedition on such occasions, but rather for protracting and spinning out the time to the very utmost limit of possibility.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bill Sikes no sooner heard the account of the expedition delivered, than he very hastily called up the white dog, and, putting on his hat, expeditiously departed: without devoting any time to the formality of wishing the company good-morning.
-- CHAPTER XXI THE EXPEDITION It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was on the desperate expedition on the desert shores of Africa, I never had so much as one thought of what would become of me, or one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
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